US EditionTwo Ukrainian Journalists Killed in Russian Drone Strike on Kramatorsk
The attack used a Lancet drone, usually targeting military vehicles, killing two journalists and wounding another amid over 20 journalist deaths since 2022, officials said.
- On Thursday, Olena Hubanova, reporter, and Yevhen Karmazin, reporter/cameraman, of state-funded Freedom television were killed by a Russian drone in Kramatorsk while in a car at a petrol station.
- The strike used a Lancet combat drone, a weapon designed for heavy military targets but increasingly used in civilian areas near Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, with a pre-war population about 150,000.
- Images posted by regional authorities included charred vehicle remains and protective vests labelled `press`, while the General Prosecutor's Office said colleague Alexander Kolychev was hospitalised and opened a war-crimes probe.
- Ukraine described the attack as a war crime, with human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets writing `This tragedy is further evidence of Russia's systemic war crimes against civilians` and the European Federation of Journalists noting the first drone-related journalist death.
- Different tallies from international groups highlight varying counts of reporters killed in recent conflicts, with the Committee for the Protection of Journalists citing 17 deaths and Ukrainian authorities at least 20 in the combat zone.
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New York, October 23, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for a thorough investigation into the killing of Ukrainian journalists Olena Hramova, 43, and Yevhen Karmazin, 33, in a Russian drone attack on October 23, 2025. “CPJ is deeply saddened and outraged by the killing of Ukrainian journalists Olena Hramova and Yevhen Karmazin in a Russian drone strike,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “Their …
Two Ukrainian journalists have been killed in a Russian drone attack on the city of Kramatorsk. According to the governor of the Donetsk region, the dead are journalist Olena Hubanowa and cameraman Yevhen Karmazin of the Russian-language TV channel Freedom, which is subsidized by the Ukrainian state. A third journalist, Oleksandr Kolichev, was injured. According to the channel, the journalists were in a car at a gas station during the attack. Th…
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Berliner Morgenpost
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In Ukraine, two Freedom TV journalists, Aliona Gramova and Yevhen Karmazin, were killed by a Russian drone on Thursday, 23 October, in the morning, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.
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